{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/schedule-1/table/B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/schedule-1/table/B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/14",
  "legislation_title": "Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/1/table/B",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "Table B",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "B. Methods for foetal, larval and embryonic forms\nAnimals for which appropriate\n1.Overdose of an anaesthetic using a route and anaesthetic agent appropriate for the size, stage of development and species of animal.\nAll animals\n2.Refrigeration, or disruption of membranes, or maceration in apparatus approved under appropriate slaughter legislation, or exposure to carbon dioxide in near 100% concentration until they are dead.\nBirds Reptiles\n3.Cooling of foetuses followed by immersion in cold tissue fixative.\nMice, Rats and Rabbits\n4.Decapitation.\nMammals and Birds up to 50g.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 substituted (E.W.S.) (1.3.1997) and (N.I.) (9.6.1997) by S.I. 1996/3278, art. 2, Sch.; S.R. 1997/226, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/14/schedule/1/table/B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:27.371223+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}